JAPAN: Conservative Triumph

More than 90% of Japan's 44 million voters
turned out for municipal elections last week, chose approximately 7,000
mayors and 179,000 city and village assemblymen. Candidates backing
Premier Shigeru Yoshida's conservative Democratic Liberal Party got 80%
of the votes, Socialists 15%, other parties and independents 4½%. The
Communist vote: less than half of 1%.